Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #9,043 of 84,120 nationally
Freeman Grove Historic District Eviction Risk: Elevated , North Adams
Tract 25003935300 · Berkshire County, MA · pop 3,856 · neighborhood within 0.5 mi
Tract 25003935300 sits in the Freeman Grove Historic District area of North Adams, MA, carrying an eviction-risk score of 7.8/10. It is home to 3,856 residents. Severe burden reaches 30%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.
Risk score
7.8
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 24%
Stable renters 23%
Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units1,765
Renter share46.9%
SVI overall0.57
Poverty rate19.3%
Median income$47,896
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
100
th percentile
Very High
Within county
100
th percentile
Very High
Within state
78
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across North Adams and the region
Centroid at 42.7053, -73.1185 · click any tract to drill in
Why Freeman Grove Historic District scores 7.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from North Adams
7.6
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.4
State political climate
Massachusetts legislature & governorship
6.2
Economic stress
19.3% poverty · this tract
4.8
Supply constraint
$820 rent vs county FMR
1.0
Rent control risk
Inherited from North Adams
8.4
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
6.0
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from North Adams
8.9
Housing court bias
Inherited from North Adams
8.0
How Freeman Grove Historic District compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 57
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 60%Socioeconomic
- 59%Household composition
- 21%Racial/ethnic minority
- 57%Housing & transportation
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 292Total filings over 10 yrs
- 863.47%Avg annual filing rate
- 4.3%Peak (2015)
- 15Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 29% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Freeman Grove Historic District. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
CDC PLACES 2023 · health & economic stress
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 13.3%Housing insecurity
- 9.7%Utility-shutoff threat
- 17.3%Food insecurity
- 23.4%SNAP enrollment
- 10.2%Transit barriers
- 6.2%No health insurance
- 19.9%Frequent mental distress
- 36.3%Any disability
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Freeman Grove Historic District
The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 8.9/10.
Against the Berkshire County average of 5.8, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 2.0 points. Sitting well above the midpoint, rent-regulation exposure reads 8.4/10.
The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. Court records carry 292 eviction filings across 10 observed years. Cost burden runs 51% here against 46.7% across Berkshire County.
SNAP participation runs 23.4% against 15.2% nationally. The worst year on record was 2015, when 4.3% of renter households were served. In a typical year about 863.5% of renter households face a filing.
Nationally it ranks #9,043 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. CDC social-vulnerability scoring puts the tract at 6.1/10.
Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.
Frequently asked
About tract 25003935300
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 25003935300?
Census tract 25003935300 in the Freeman Grove Historic District neighborhood scores 7.8/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 25003935300?
Median gross rent is $820/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 51% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 25003935300?
19.3% of residents in tract 25003935300 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 3,856.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 25003935300?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 57th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 60th, household 59th, minority 21th, housing 57th.
Q5
Is tract 25003935300 considered part of Freeman Grove Historic District?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 25003935300 fall within Freeman Grove Historic District (neighborhood centroid within 0.5 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 25003935300?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 292 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 25003935300 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 863.47% of renter households, peaking at 4.3% in 2015. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
What share of households in tract 25003935300 struggle to pay rent?
About 13.3% of adults in this tract reported housing insecurity (could not pay rent or mortgage in the past 12 months), per the CDC PLACES 2023 model-based small-area estimate. 9.7% also reported utility shutoff threats, a frequent precursor to eviction filings.
Q8
How does tract 25003935300 compare to North Adams overall?
Tract 25003935300 scores 7.8/10, higher than the parent city of North Adams at 6.4/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from North Adams; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Sibling tracts
Highest-risk tracts in North Adams
Top eight tracts in North Adams ranked by composite eviction-risk score.
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